Op wikipedia is te lezen dat Vonnegut dit boek eens zo zou hebben omschreven: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A duty dance with death, by Kurt Vonnegut, a fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod [and smoking too much], who, as an American Infantry Scout Hors de Combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire bombing of Dresden, Germany, ‘The Florence of the Elbe,' a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace.